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About the author
Ibn Jubayr (1145–1217), born in Valencia, was secretary to the governor of Granada when, according to a well-known story, he was forced to drink wine and, in remorse, set out on the pilgrimage to Mecca. His journey, from 1183 to 1185, took him through Egypt under Saladin, the Hejaz, Iraq, Syria and Norman Sicily.
His Rihla, the travel diary he kept along the way, is one of the most vivid travel books in Arabic, full of the cities, sea storms, pilgrims and rulers he saw. He made two more journeys east and died in Alexandria. Compare it with The Travels of Marco Polo, written a century later.
- Rilat Ibn Jubayr = The Travels of Ibn Jubair/ edited from a ms. in the University Library of Leyden by William WrightIbn Jubayr
- Riḥlat Ibn Jubayr : al-kātib al-adīb al-bāriʻ al-labīb Abī al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn JubayrIbn Jubayr
- Voyage en Sicile de Mohammed-ebn Djobaïr de Valence, sous le règne de Guillaume le BonIbn Jubayr